How do I program a joystick deadband?

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by F22Rapture

Does this appear to be correct?

You've created a new function, but haven't called it. In order to do the equivalent of the commented out code, you would need to add another line similar to the following

double turn = turn(Xbox);

(I'm not very experienced with java, so it might not even compile with having variable named the same as a function). Notice how this isn't exactly clear, which is why Djur recommended renaming turn to something more generic. Doesn't this sound better?

double turn = applyDeadband(Xbox);

There's probably a better way to write the deadband function so that you could apply it to the throttle also easily without creating a second function. Can you think of another way to do it?